The Raven Boys
core novel 2012 The Raven Cycle
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.05 (409,991 ratings, collected 2026-08-30) |
| Page count | 409 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780545424936 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
The Raven Boys is the first novel in the Raven Cycle and is set in the small Virginia town of Henrietta. Every year, teenager Blue Sargent watches from the sidelines as the dead pass by on St. Mark's Eve, a night her clairvoyant mother uses to predict which people in town will die within the year, though Blue herself has never been able to see the spirits directly. That changes when a boy named Gansey speaks to her, something she has always been told means her true love is fated to die. Blue is drawn into the world of Gansey and his three friends from the private Aglionby Academy, Adam, Ronan and Noah, who are pursuing a mysterious quest tied to old legends about a sleeping Welsh king, even as Blue's family warnings hang over her growing closeness to the group.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Raven Cycle
- Series: The Raven Cycle core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Notes
- From the series record (The Raven Cycle): The original quartet following Blue Sargent and the Raven Boys' search for a sleeping Welsh king.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Raven Cycle: position 1 of 4: next The Dream Thieves (2013)
- Internal chronology, within The Raven Cycle: position 1 of 7: next The Dream Thieves (2013)
Sources
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